This Wednesday a federal judge ruled that the congressional bill, passed last year by both houses, which barred the community organizing group ACORN from receiving federal funds amounted to a […]
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Afghani Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Kabir has been “seized in Pakistan” according to American media reports which say he was picked up in the city of Nowshera.
Though correlation doesn’t imply causation, prudish liberal atheists generally have slightly higher IQs than their lustful conservative theist brethren.
Over the summer I addressed by video conference a meeting by the National Academies on state science policy advice. They’ve now produced a report based on that meeting and it […]
The White House has formally invited the Congress to attend a televised legislative debate over healthcare reform scheduled for February 25th in the nation’s capital.
They say that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. When they say that, they usually mean that they’re going to get drunk, not write a novel. But while a […]
William Chafe explains how Ella Baker nurtured the movement—and sometimes challenged its male leadership.
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Members of the GOP regret allowing cameras into Obama’s Q&A with House Republicans after such a positive response to the President’s remarks.
President Karzai of Afghanistan has proposed a “Taliban amnesty” whereby Taliban names would be removed from a UN blacklist imposing travel restrictions and asset freezes.
Rep. Bart Stupak is being coy. On Monday, the anti-choice Democrat told a town hall meeting that there was “no such thing as compromise” on abortion funding under health care […]
A complete set of 30,000-year-old teeth found in Portugal will answer important evolutionary questions about early modern humans.
How will institutions change their curriculum post-crisis? Columbia Business School’s dean, Glenn Hubbard, believes the key is to teach broad leadership skills.
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A former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, once famously opined that a ‘week is a long-time in politics’. In which case a month is surely an age. The current British […]
Bill George, Harvard professor management practice, weighs in on the dire state of today’s business leadership and how we can cultivate a better class of managers.
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Britain will send $80 million to support the Palestinian Authority, help Gazans through the winter and pay teachers in U.N. schools.
When you live in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration is not just a one day affair. Here we have King Week activities, galas and marches for days. […]
Today Big Think hosted renowned management expert Bill George, professor of management at Harvard Business School and author of “7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis.” George shared his firsthand experience […]
Democrats are planning how to reconcile Senate and House versions of healthcare reform now that both chambers have passed their respective bills.
Iran’s most senior dissident cleric who accused the government of being a dictatorship died today after 25 years under house arrest.
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
A whistleblower who exposed the torture of protestors in Iranian jails has died after being poisoned by a delivery salad laced with blood pressure medication, fuelling fears that he was murdered.
The Economist’s Christmas Issue one-act, “Gordon Rex,” might be funny or—in that uniquely English, Economist-y way—slightly self-consciously aloof, but it makes us long for more. More Brown in verse. More […]
“We as a nation are television watchers. Not only do we learn about politics by watching television, but we are television watchers; who we are as humans is in part […]
This week’s interviews for What Went Wrong? offers a glimpse into the world of the academy, and its culpability in causing the economic crisis of 2008. We sat down with […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire for spending nearly $3,000 of tax payer’s money on flowers in four months while Whip James Clayburn has spent hundreds on donuts.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today flies to the divided island of Cyprus ahead of a key summit officially held up as the best prospect for Cypriot unification. Both the […]
Leadership in Century 21 …
I wanted to start the year off on a positive note, but a spin around the blogosphere today has already got my blood pressure up. In particular, I am extremely […]
Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School strategy guru, talks about one significant influence in his educational career—a student leadership position that led to business school and his entrance into academia. […]
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It’s unbelievable, really. The US military is holding up Iraq as a model for Afghanistan. They’ll tell you it took a few years to get right but by golly, Iraq […]